SIGNS AND WONDERS. CONTINUITY AND INFLECTION IN OROSIO'S THOUGHT
Abstract
The use of prodigies is a classical narrative motif which lasts and changes in Christian Age. Orosius also mentions some prodigies in his Historiae, although he interprets them from a Christian point of view. Because of this, he denies the pagan prophetic skills or he considers many prodigies as evils from past times, but he interprets other phenomena as the result of Providence's intervention, particularly during the Roman Empire, and he accepts the predictive value of some signs, specially the signa and the prodigia which foretold Augustus' government.
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